CHAPTER XVII
RELIGION AND WOMAN
She was the first in the transgression therefore keep her in subjection.
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Fierce is the dragon and cunning the asp; but woman has the malice of both. St. Gregory of Nazianzum.
Thou art the devil's gate, the betrayer of the tree, the first deserter of the Divine Law. Tertullin.
What does it matter whether it be in the person of mother or sister; we have to beware Eve in every woman.
How much better two men could live and converse together than a man and a woman. St Augustine
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. Luther
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
It is noticed in most calculations of churchgoers that women have remained attached to the churches in a far higher proportion than men. The proportion of women in the churches is vastly greater than their proportion in the general population. Most of the men who still passively attend their churches do so under the
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